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HyperRogue the fascinating and confusing non-Euclidean puzzle-roguelike has a big update

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2020

HyperRogue might just melt your mind if you try to understand it, and it remains as one of the most unique puzzle-roguelike games around due to the non-Euclidean features.

GOverlay - a new open source Linux app for managing overlays like MangoHud

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2020

With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.

Looking to follow more Linux gaming sources? Here's a few you might like

By Liam Dawe, 10 Mar 2020

At GOL we're big fans of community building and so sometimes it's good to give a shout out to others doing fantastic work for Linux gaming.

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Untrusted is an upcoming online multiplayer social deduction game about hacking

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Untrusted is similar in idea to other social deduction games like Mafia/Werewolf (amongst plenty of others), only this time it's a bit more nerdy and technical with the hacking idea.

Get political in the free retro platformer 'Super Bernie World' out now

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Super Bernie World is a new free and retro political platformer from a team of different indie developers and it's out now with a Linux version.

mod.io secures funding to expand their cross-platform and cross-store modding service

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

mod.io is a cross-store and cross-platform modding solution founded by Scott Reismanis (Mod DB, Indie DB) and it appears they're expanding to bring their fancy modding tech to everyone.

Test Tube Titans has you create and mutate massive creatures to destroy everything

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Test Tube Titans is such an amusing game, allowing you to create freakish looking creatures, blast them with radiation and make them even more menacing. Then you send them out into the world to crush and destroy.

Advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool 'Basemark GPU' has a new build out

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Back in 2018 Basemark announced and released Basemark GPU, their advanced cross-platform benchmarking tool. Last week, they release a huge update to it.

Supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' still on track for this year and for Linux too

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

ASYLUM is really looking good, and quite freaky. Senscape just released a big update post on how the progress is going, after Epic Games recently gave them a Mega Grant.

Jumpala could be the next generation of competitive platformers and it's fun already

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Indie developers never cease to amaze me on what they can do with simple settings and Jumpala is another surprise that I've been enjoying.

Monster Sanctuary's latest update adds a whole new area and creatures to collect

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Monster Sanctuary is such a sweet game, another that has its own spin on the creature capture/collection genre with platforming, puzzles and metroidvania-styled exploration.

Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Diablo on Linux. Sound familiar? Well, we only just recently talked about Freeablo and now devilutionX has a brand new release made available for this classic.

Ocean's Heart, a sweet-looking upcoming action RPG that emphasizes exploration

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Ocean's Heart from developer Max Mraz is looking great! A sweet action RPG with a Zelda-like theme and it's coming to Linux. I had a little chat with the developer about it.

Be the captain in a stylish Naval adventure with 'Abandon Ship' now up on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Abandon Ship focuses on 'Age of Sail' ships in a Fantasy setting, with an art style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings and it is awesome when in motion.

Battle through a dying Earth in the FPS 'Core Decay' - Steam page now up

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2020

Core Decay is one of those incredible looking retro-inspired shooters we covered recently, and it's now listed on Steam for you to go give it a wishlist.

What have you been playing recently and what are your thoughts?

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2020

It's Sunday, it's a lazy day for some and plenty of you are probably playing through your backlog of games - so what have you been playing and what do you think about it?

AMD just recently had a 'Take A Way' security issue for their CPUs disclosed

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2020

Thought Intel was the only one? Well you would be living under a rock with all the past issues but Intel seemed to be constantly hit harder, and they had another recently. This time, it's AMD's turn in the security spotlight.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2020

Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.